It wasn't exactly a great movie year for me, so I only have a top 5 unfortunately.
5. Deadpool. I was impressed with how much I liked it, and how easy it is to re-watch. I don't often laugh throughout a movie but definitely did this time around.
4. Assassins Creed. I don't see how it could have been any better. It was so committed that half was in Spanish, and you know a movie adaption rules when it makes you like the games more. Besides the classic Templar/Assassin war, it always has raised nice questions on free will vs. control of the people. It was also nice that it took itself seriously, unlike, say, the Prince of Persia adaption.
3. Rogue One. While I did not enjoy my first viewing somehow, I have come to love this movie. It keeps up with the history of making superior, larger, more intelligent prequels to the originals. It hits home harder than most of the movies do, feels more easy to relate to. And Vader... my goodness.
2. Nocturnal Animals. I can't say much without spoiling it, but it's the type of dark, psychological thriller I love above almost all else. I was sadly only able to see it once, but I highly await the day it is released on blu ray. Jake Gyllehnhal blows another thriller out of the water, same level as instant classics like Prisoners and Nightcrawler. It's one that I was thinking about for weeks after seeing it, a new absolute favorite.
1. Batman v. Superman: Dawn of Justice Ultimate Edition. While the theater version fell quite short, this movie is a testament to everything movies could ever amount to. A true modern myth of gods vs men played right on screen before us. Never have I experienced a movie that s greatly reaches into its origins of epic myths, of gods among men. Not only this, but BvS manages to touch on the same depth as Watchmen without actually entering the realm of satire. Questions of power, morality, psychology, politics, all ring through bringing up questions humanity has always tried and failed to answer.
5. Deadpool. I was impressed with how much I liked it, and how easy it is to re-watch. I don't often laugh throughout a movie but definitely did this time around.
4. Assassins Creed. I don't see how it could have been any better. It was so committed that half was in Spanish, and you know a movie adaption rules when it makes you like the games more. Besides the classic Templar/Assassin war, it always has raised nice questions on free will vs. control of the people. It was also nice that it took itself seriously, unlike, say, the Prince of Persia adaption.
3. Rogue One. While I did not enjoy my first viewing somehow, I have come to love this movie. It keeps up with the history of making superior, larger, more intelligent prequels to the originals. It hits home harder than most of the movies do, feels more easy to relate to. And Vader... my goodness.
2. Nocturnal Animals. I can't say much without spoiling it, but it's the type of dark, psychological thriller I love above almost all else. I was sadly only able to see it once, but I highly await the day it is released on blu ray. Jake Gyllehnhal blows another thriller out of the water, same level as instant classics like Prisoners and Nightcrawler. It's one that I was thinking about for weeks after seeing it, a new absolute favorite.
1. Batman v. Superman: Dawn of Justice Ultimate Edition. While the theater version fell quite short, this movie is a testament to everything movies could ever amount to. A true modern myth of gods vs men played right on screen before us. Never have I experienced a movie that s greatly reaches into its origins of epic myths, of gods among men. Not only this, but BvS manages to touch on the same depth as Watchmen without actually entering the realm of satire. Questions of power, morality, psychology, politics, all ring through bringing up questions humanity has always tried and failed to answer.
